Vatican City, Apr 12, 2017 / 04:22 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Wednesday the Vatican announced that EWTN’s Chairman of the Board Michael Warsaw has been named by Pope Francis a consultor of the Vatican Secretariat for Communications.
The announcement of Warsaw’s appointment was made in an April 12 communique from the Vatican, along with the names of 13 other new consultors.
Warsaw was promoted to Chairman of the Board for EWTN in 2013. He has worked for EWTN since 1991, and had been named president in 2000, and CEO in 2009. He also serves as publisher of the National Catholic Register since the paper’s acquisition by EWTN in 2011.
He has worked for more than 35 years in media, and has overseen EWTN’s television, radio, and internet programming and production, as well as hosting the program “Bookmark.” He had been appointed COO in 2009.
EWTN was founded in 1981 by Mother Angelica, of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration. The network today transmits programming to more than 264 million homes in 144 countries. What began with approximately 20 employees has now grown to nearly 400.
The religious network broadcasts terrestrial and shortwave radio around the world, operates a religious goods catalog and publishes the National Catholic Register and Catholic News Agency, among other publishing ventures.
In addition to Warsaw, other new consultors to the Secretariat are: Fr. Ivan Maffeis, Undersecretary of the Italian Bishops Conference; Fr. José María La Porte, Dean of the Faculty of Institutional Social Communications of the Pontifical University of Santa Croce; Fr. Peter Gonsalves, S.B.D., Dean of the Faculty of the Science of Social Communications at the Pontifical Salesian University; Fr Eric Salobir, O.P., Promoter General for Social Communications of the Order of Preachers; Fr. James Martin S.J. of America Magazine; Fr. Jacquineau Azétsop S.J., Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Pontifical Gregorian University; Paolo Peverini, Professor of Semiotics at Luiss Guido Carli University; Fernando Giménez Barriocanal, President and Managing Director of Radio Popular-Cadena COPE; Ann Carter of Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communications; Graham Ellis, Vice Director of BBC Radio; Dino Cataldo Dell’Accio, Chief ICT Auditor at the United Nations and Michael Paul Unland, Executive Director of the Catholic Media Council.
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A comprehensive attempt at reconciling Humanity with technological advancement. Leo XIV to his credit integrates John Paul II with Pope Francis. He does so with focus on the common good and the preservation if not restoration of our humanness in an already digitalized culture.
“In this same vein, I too have reaffirmed that the Church does not claim to possess a monopoly on truth, because truth is not a territory to be defended, but a good to be shared. For his part, Pope Francis expressed this same perspective in his striking phrase, time is greater than space”.
This is a provocative comment that can be understood from a progressive or more conservative perspective. At this interval Pope Leo deserves a positive interpretation of his effort at reconciliation of the Francis break with his predecessors.
Should read: [for] his effort at reconciliation of the Francis break with his predecessors.
Interesting read.
One example where “time is greater than space” breaks down, would be Zionism. Zionism is not limited by either space or time, where both are subordinated and dominated; and it stakes its claims on them equally, only limited by momentary exigencies.
‘ We must speak frankly: there are some people who are committed to conquering their perceived enemies and their chosen method—their only method—is lethal violence. I am nearly finished writing my next book right now, titled Eastern Christian Encounters with Islam, and anyone with even a passing knowledge of the history of Syria, Egypt, Armenia, or many other countries knows how many millions of Christians, ancient and modern, from the seventh century to the twenty-first, have perished or been persecuted because certain Muslims were more interested in jihad than in jaw-jaw, more ruthless in pursuit of conquest than conversation. (At the same time, however, as the book will show, there have been periods and places where Muslim-Christian relations were rather amicable if often one-sided.)
Constant exhortations to Christians, then, to continue to dialogue with other religions must be met by even more constant and even more vigorous demands, by, from, and for Muslims themselves, that they now and forever forswear any and all uses of violence against all people over cartoons or other equally absurdly trivial and non-life-threatening things. ‘
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2015/02/10/the-dangers-of-abstraction-and-the-limits-of-dialogue/
My Comment Joseph M. Sammut
Magnifica Humanitas
We are living a moment where artificial intelligence is rapidly shaping how we work, decide, and relate to one another. It is often presented as progress, yet it quietly raises deeper questions about human dignity, truth, and responsibility.
Magnifica Humanitas helps us recognise that the real issue is not only the technology itself, but the values being built into it. Technology is never neutral; it carries the vision of those who design and use it.
This creates a tension: will these systems serve the human person, or will they begin to reshape what it means to be human in narrower, controlled ways?
The Letter invites us to move beyond passive acceptance. It calls us to take responsibility—to question, to discern, and to ensure that the development of artificial intelligence reflects our shared dignity and interdependence.
The challenge before us is clear: not simply to manage technology, but to shape it with conscience, so that it truly serves life.